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From: itkin@mrspoc.Transact.COM (Steven M. List)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: menu driver to boot up the correct congif.sys ?
Message-ID: <1991Apr17.163857.13672@mrspoc.Transact.COM>
Date: 17 Apr 91 16:38:57 GMT
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Reply-To: steven@Transact.COM
Organization: Transact Software
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conslt01@zeus.unomaha.edu (The Oracle) writes:

>> I haven't looked at or used MBOOT.SYS, but I have used multiconfig 2.0
>> (multic20.zoo) and it works GREAT!  Lets you have up to three different
>> configurations within a single config.sys file, and also includes a program
>> that checks which version (returns the value in ERRORLEVEL) so you can
>> have conditional sections in autoexec.bat!  VERY cool.
>
>I am looking for a menu-driven utility that will, upon bootup, give me a menu
>that will ask me what config.sys I would like to use.  I currently have programs
>that need a coprocessor (I have a tsr emulation), some that need expanded, some
>that need extended.  I hate to have to make 10 different boot disks to run all
>my program, but that is about what I'm going to have to do unless I can come 
>accross something like this.
>Is this what the MBOOT.SYS or MULTICONFIG 2.0 does?  If so, where can I lay my
>greedy little hand on it?  If not, then is there something that I can lay my
>other greedy little hand on to do this, or am I SOL as far as this goes?
>	Thank you in advance,
>				John G. Schroeder
>				The Oracle
>				Conslt01@Zeus.UnOmaha.Edu
>				Conslt01@UnOma1

Yes, that's what MULTICONFIG does.  It allows you three optional configurations
that you choose between using the SHIFT, ALT, and CTRL keys.  There's also
a timeout you can specify that will allow it to default to the Normal (SHIFT)
configuration.  Using the ERRORLEVEL, you can then do the same thing in
autoexec.bat.

Steven
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